The World in English
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As for the phrase “The police is a humanbeing, as well.”, it is a known fact that most of us count ourselves as “humanists”. Furthermore, a number of people has kept, up until now, coming out as humanists just through reading a few aphorisms by Buddha, or by analysing just a small number of sonnets by Shakespeare. This was indeed a retrospective cycle with every single one talking all at once. Namely, some would come out and praise Fetullah Gülen, with others honouring Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayip Erdoğan, with some subliming Adolf Hitler, or with ones regarding themselves as Ataturkists only by putting out a Turkish flag, for example. This formation, that insanity, has always been up there. What I say is that I have started to interrogate myself in an excruciating manner since “Gezi”, indeed it is not that I do not have difficulties doing that; astounding myself, and even selfmanipulation at times.
While calling those who keep the phrase “The best Kurdish you could think of is a dead one” in their minds “barbarians and uncivilised ones”, I do not raise any objection to the fact in which “that police in Turkey” is in pain. And then I turn back and ask myself: “Where on earth is that
“humankind” which I keep bolstering for the sake of many things. Am I being on the verge of losing my notion of “the divinity of the lifeblood” while I do not oppose even though it is a police, a provoker or a radical Islamist who dies. I cannot find out an answer.
Yet apparently, we are by no means “The Hippies” of the 1960s; at least, not me. Because the mainstream and the norms of the 60s were utterly distinctive. It would be completely true to say that then was a period of communism and fascism, yet it should well be kept in mind that the year 1960 was not 2014 at all. Anyway, I may have to face the question: “So, it seems that you pose no objection to a slaughter.” Not quite so, but I had better stand for that spiel. Because I feel totally gone mad facing the way by which we have ruined our planet. Such a way as it is, we feel too weary to debate ideologically. People die everyday without any reason. In this context, I think that it is highly significant to refer to Albert Camus and one of his aphorisms: “Once the ‘death’ becomes an issue of statistics and government, it means that the things in the world are not going well anymore.” And I think that it is in this context of absurdism that he would like Turkey a lot if he were alive. Here in Turkey, he would have a great number of materials and drafts of character to analyse. You ask why? Because our beloved(!) prime minister was spitting out some words in his speech: “Our distress is the humanbeing.”
As a matter of fact, he was directly talking about 35 people killed by his own order. In the framework of such an absurdism, now I am able to figure out that Albert Camus cannot be wellunderstood in this country and some say “I think what that guys writes does not make any sense.” And I see the point: in his speech, the death really became an issue of statistics and government. Provided that the point is, even now, to talk about the numbers and the simple mistakes, it means that the life of humanbeing has now no value. For example; from two men, one kills the other just because the latter had a sunstroke – and this is as absurd as the fact in which a group of gunmen kills another group.
As for me; it seems that I, without even noticing it, turned out to support pragmatism, which I
think is a complete ineffectualness. I truly hope that it just stays temporarily in my heart and soul.
Because under no circumstances do I want to support or agree with the idea of “What is the
most righteous is what brings the most benefit.”
Have bright days, full of hope.
“Once the ‘death’ becomes an issue of statistics and government, it means that the things in the world are not going well anymore.”
Albert Camus